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11-letter words containing f, o, e

  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • best effort — (networking)   A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
  • best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
  • bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
  • bio-warfare — biological warfare.
  • biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
  • blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
  • bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
  • blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
  • bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
  • boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
  • boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
  • boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
  • bonne femme — prepared in simple style, as in a cream sauce containing mushrooms: fillet of sole bonne femme.
  • booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
  • bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
  • bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
  • broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
  • browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
  • browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
  • by force of — If something happens by force of a particular quality, action, or set of circumstances, it happens because of the nature or intensity of that quality, action, or set of circumstances.
  • by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
  • by order of — according to the command of
  • by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calefaction — the act of heating
  • calefactory — giving warmth
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • camouflaged — concealed or disguised
  • camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
  • candle-foot — foot-candle
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